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MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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Suppose you own a restaurant and have a cook whose ability and attitude you are suspicious of. One of the dishes on the menu is duck cassoulet, which uses duck legs that have been slow fried over a couple of hours in oil that does not exceed a temperature of 175 degrees. This is a time consuming and monotonous process, but one that results in excellent meat that you sell for a large mark-up. You suspect your cook is lazy and doesn't properly monitor and maintain the oil temperature. You take a random sample of 12 duck legs and take them to a forensics lab where you are able to discover the maximum temperature the meat has reached. Within your sample the mean maximum temperature of the duck legs is 182 degrees with a standard deviation of 5 degrees. Meat cooked precisely to 175 degrees is what your cook is supposed to do. Test the claim that your employee is capable (meaning he doesn't over-fry the meat) at the 90% confidence level. What is your critical value?

A) 1.645

B) 1.720

C) 1.796

D) 4.85

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the average of a given data set. The mean value is evaluated as the quotient of the sum of all observations by the sample size. The mean, in contrast to a median, is affected by extreme values. Very large or very small values can distract the mean from the center of the data. Arithmetic mean: The most common type of mean is the arithmetic mean. It is evaluated using the formula: μ = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N x i Other types of means are the geometric mean, logarithmic mean, and harmonic mean. Geometric mean: The nth root of the product of n observations from a data set is defined as the geometric mean of the set: G = x 1 x 2 ... x n n Logarithmic mean: The difference of the natural logarithms of the two numbers, divided by the difference between the numbers is the logarithmic mean of the two numbers. The logarithmic mean is used particularly in heat transfer and mass transfer. ln x 2 − ln x 1 x 2 − x 1 Harmonic mean: The inverse of the arithmetic mean of the inverses of all the numbers in a data set is the harmonic mean of the data. 1 1 x 1 + 1 x 2 + ...

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